annoy
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"We're a bunch of oldies, but everyone gets stressed, everyone suffers loss and gets sad, everyone's happy, everyone has people in their life they love and people who annoy them," Forte said.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
That might offer reassurance to the Palace, but will annoy critics of royal finances.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
“If we invest wisely in life extension technologies, in 40 years, we’ll all be able to annoy our friends with complaints like ‘immortality almost never works,'” he said.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
We pinged our readers for the terms that really annoy them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
“When mankind first sacrificed to the gods, you tricked them into giving you the best portion. You gave us fire to annoy the gods, not because you cared about us.”
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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Anger (verb)
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